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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Godot"”.
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Godot in Earnest: Beckettian Readings of Wilde
Critics and audiences alike have neglected the idea of Wilde as a precursor to Beckett. But I contend that a closer look at each writer's aesthetic and philosophic tendencies-for instance, their interest in the fluid nature of self, their understanding of identity as a performance, and their belief …
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A Production Notebook On Waiting For Godot
In February of 1975 a production of Waiting for Godot was performed six nights in repertory in the three-quarter round Craig Hall Balcony Theatre on the campus of Southwest Missouri State University. The prompt book, comprising the first one hundred and twelve pages of this thesis, diagrams the …
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Mobilní hra Sound Runner v Godot engine
Cílem práce je vytvoření nové hry, ve které hraje zvuk důležitou roli. Výsledkem je hra typu runner, kde se hráč za pomocí zvuků vyhýbá neviditelným překážům. Překážky jsou různého druhu a každá je reprezentována jiným zvukem. Hra je realizována jako mobilní vzhledek k popularitě dané platformy.
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Reading <i>Waiting for Godot</i> through the lens of Christian existentialism
<p>Samuel Beckett’s play <em>Waiting for Godot</em> is commonly interpreted within the context of the Theater of the Absurd, existentialist literature, or Christian allegory. This thesis recognizes the validity of all such readings while attempting to merge these seemingly contradictory …
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The reflection of the wastelands of Waiting for Godot and Endgame in electronic media
… of the Wastelands of </em><em>Waiting for Godot</em><em> and </em><em>Endgame </em><em>in Electronic Media</em> is a study of the wasteland settings of <em>Waiting for Godot</em>, <em>Endgame</em>, and the Internet according to the method of play analysis established by Bruce McConachie in …
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Mémoires d'une attente inachevée : le temps dans Malone Meurt, L'innommable et En Attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett
… Malone meurt, L’Innommable e En attendant Godot. Tudo o que é assimilado, assim como refutado por Beckett, é convidado a entrar em cena no decorrer deste trabalho. Como via de acesso para a composisão da escritura becketiana, foi necessário seguir os passos da memória de leitura do autor …
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Between "Play" and "Power" : performing "Waiting" Under Siege : Susan Sontag's staging of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo
… 1993 staging of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot in besieged Sarajevo, staged amid an entanglement of political, ideological, cultural, ethical and epistemological discourses. The production is discussed in the theoretical context of emerging postmodern aesthetic/political praxis, and in the …
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Waiting, Part One of a Sarajevo Novel: The Figure of the Siege and the Refugee in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Siege-Exile Literature
… Sarajevo production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It finally examines Slavenka Drakulić’s representation of the refugee in her Bosnian war novel, As If I Am Not There. The critical paper thus offers close readings of two war novels and a wartime theatrical production. These texts are seen as …
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The stirrings still of popular forms of entertainment in Samuel Beckett's first published play : examining the influences of the Music-Hall, Vaudeville, Circus and Early screen comedy on Waiting for Godot
… the ways in which Beckett interlards Waiting for Godot with a selection of thematic motifs and comic conventions culled from the English music-hall, American vaudeville, circus clowning and, finally, early screen comedy in order to present us with a vision of the human condition that is as …
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"CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LISTEN TO IT, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK IT WAS?": A STUDY OF SOUND TECHNOLOGIES IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S ALL THAT FALL, EMBERS, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE AND THAT TIME
… his most important works: Endgame, Waiting for Godot, and his novel trilogy (<italic>Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable</italic>). Particularly, this thesis examines Beckett's foray into radio drama as the manner through which Beckett escaped impasse. Furthermore, this thesis argues that …
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An experimental and theoretical tool for studying the language of geometric concepts
… an experimental paradigm and tool, Finding GoDot, for studying the cognitive language of geometry. Using the above lens, I model constructive actions as a language, specifically looking at the task of drawing shapes. Next, majority of this thesis deals with the problem of calculating the …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
… NOLA?; Paul Chan/Creative Time’s Waiting for Godot; Swimming Upstream coproduced by V-Day International and Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans; and the ongoing work of NOLA Playback Theatre in micro-community settings.
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Herbert Blau: directing a revolution in American theatre, 1952-1965
… Children (1956); Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1957-58); and, Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death (1965). These productions represent the arc of Blau’s directing career from beginning theory through the avant-garde and onto the national stage. They are presented, in conversation with Blau’s …
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L'esthétique du silence dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett
… Through emblematic works such as Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Act Without Words, he interrogates the human condition by staging waiting, repetition, emptiness, and the failure of verbal communication. From this perspective, silence is not merely a pause between words, but a dramatic element …
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… specifically Samuel Beckett in <em>Waiting for Godot</em> and Eugene Ionesco in <em>The Bald Soprano-</em>-are striving to convey directly to the audience their intuition of the human situation which is ultimately absurd.</p> <p>Such is the subject matter of their plays, and it determines their …
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Beckett’s Bodies, 1953–1983: Movement, Gesture, and Posture
… reading three of the dramatic works—*Waiting for Godot*, *Rough for Theatre I*, and *Catastrophe*. It is within the context of a crisis of humanism, I argue, that many of the postural forms found in Beckett’s dramatic works of the mid- to late century can be read, with the philosophical concept of …
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Samuel Beckett's Theory of Repetition
<p>The thesis explores playwright, Samuel Beckett, and his use of repetition within four of his plays. The way in which repetition is discussed and shown in his plays displays Beckett’s own theories about repetition such as the futility and meaningless of life that repetition brings about, how …